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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT M. SMALL, OF vBALDVVINSVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN'OR TO SARAH ELIZABETH SMALL, OF SAME PLACE.

MANUFACTURE OF GAFPET-PADS.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 231,733, dated August 31, 1880. Application lcd March 22, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, HERBERT M. SMALL, of Baldwinsville, of the town of Templeton, of the count)7 ot' Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful I mprovement in the Manufacture of Carpet-Pads;

and I do hereby declare the same to be de.

scribed in the following specification and represented in the accompanying' drawings, of 1o Which- Figure 1 is a top View, Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, ot' a carpet-pad of my improved kind having toits sectional pads a single covering-sheet. Fig. 4

isa longitudinal section ot' itas made with two coveringsheets to its sectional pads.

This carpet-pad is composed ot' a series of separate sectional pads, as hereinafter described, arranged and combined with a paper 2o covering sheet or sheets disposed and applied as explained; and, furthermore, such pad is or may be provided with strengthening threads or twines arranged along' the ends of the sectional pads and covered by the covering sheet or sheets.

Each of the sectional pads A consists ot' a flat tubeof paper, (or a narrow sheet of paper folded in the form of a Hat tube,) and having within it a stuffing of a fibrous material. Fig.

3o 5 is a transverse section, and Fig. 6 a longitudinal section, of such a pad, a. bein-g the paper tube or wrapper, and Z1 the stuffing of librous or elastic material, such as is com monl y employed in making carpet-pads- A series of these long and narrow pads I arrange edge to edge, or nearly so, and parallel to each other i upon a paper sheet or covering, B, preferring to have the joints or laps of the wrappers or tubes of the sectional pads next to such coveringslieet. The said covering-sheet, having 4o the sectional pads arranged on and across it, has a width greater than the length of eac'h of the sectional pads, each of which is to be alike in length, and they are to be cemented at suitable intervals down upon the covering-sheet, which, at or near its edge, is to be folded over the next adjacent ends ot' the sectional pads and down upon the upper surfaces ot' suchA pads and cemented 01' pasted thereto., a lille or twine, C, beingilirst laid in each of the folds 5o ofthe covering and against the ends ofthe sectional pads. This lineortwineisto strengthen the carpet-pad at its edges.

lf desirable, an auxiliary covering', D, or paper sheet may be arranged on the sectional pads and the laps ofthe main covering' and be pasted or fastened thereto.

A carpet-pad so made can be easily folded for storage or transportation. lThe material composing' thestuflingsofitspadsiseompletely 6o covered, so as not to be liable to get out of place or drop out ofthe sectional pads at their ends.

What l claim as my invention is as' follows, viz: i

1. A carpet-pad composed of a series ot sectional pads, as described, and a covering of paper, all combined and arranged substantially as specified.

2. A carpet-pad composed ot' a series of sec 7o tional pads, as described, strengthening lines or twines, and a covering of paper, all combined and arral'iged substantially as set forth.

HERBERT M. SMALL. 

